Federal Money in Texas
The Five Largest Federal Contracts in Texas Last Quarter
On the south side of Houston sits a 1,600-acre campus where mission control has guided American spaceflight since the 1960s....
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72 Hours to a Shutdown: What Closes in Texas
If you are flying out of Dallas, Houston, or Austin this summer, a budget fight in Washington could show up...
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What the EPA’s 31% Budget Cut Means for Texas
Most Texans never think about the Environmental Protection Agency until something goes wrong with their water. But the federal money...
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How a Debt-Ceiling Default Would Hit Texas
For a retiree in Fort Worth who counts on a Social Security deposit hitting the bank on the same day...
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How Much of $1.2 Trillion in Federal Grants Reached Texas
When a rural hospital in West Texas keeps its doors open, when a stretch of interstate near Houston gets resurfaced,...
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What New CBO Deficit Projections Mean for Texas
A Texas family that pays its bills on time, keeps a little in savings, and never spends more than it...
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Texas Firms Among the 10 Contractors That Out-Earn 38 States
In Fort Worth, thousands of Texans build the F-35 fighter at a Lockheed Martin plant that has anchored the local...
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Federal Hiring Is Up at These Agencies — Including in Texas
The Austin IRS campus is one of the agency's largest, and the South Texas border is one of the busiest...
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How Much of the $6.3 Trillion Federal Budget Comes Back to Texas
Every Social Security check mailed to a retiree in Tyler, every paycheck at Fort Bliss, every Medicaid prescription filled at...
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Congress’s Fourth Stopgap This Year: What It Means for Texas
Texas is home to one of the largest concentrations of federal activity in the country — border enforcement along the...
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The Federal Spending Wire tracks how federal, state, and local government spending actually lands on Texas households — property taxes, utility bills, benefits, jobs, and the tax dollars flowing through Washington and Austin alike. Every figure is sourced to the public record, so you can see exactly where your money went.